Overseas, Chelsea FC Women team-mates Jess Carter and Ann-Katrin Berger are in a relationship.
However, his manager, Emma Hayes, does not approve.
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Chelsea manager Emma Hayes officiates the Barclays FA Women’s Super League match against Aston Villa Women in Kingsmeadow on March 28, 2021 in Kingston upon Thames, England. (Catherine Ivill – The FA/FA via Getty Images)
“Player-coach dating is inappropriate, player dating is inappropriate,” Hayes said this week.
“A player is in the team, she’s not in the team, she’d possibly be in the last year of her contract, possibly she wouldn’t be. We all know that, those of us who have been committed to women’s football for a long time,” she said. These things happened in the locker room. In the long run, this would be ideal. . . where you don’t have to deal with it. “
Carter, of course, heard about those comments and wasn’t a fan of them. He liked a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter, that criticized Hayes, who would soon become the manager of the USWNT.
“By the way, you don’t have to justify what Emma said, it’s an answer no matter how you provide it. There’s a basic difference between player-player and player-coach relationships and it’s a power imbalance. She may have said something yet,” reads one post she liked.
Chelsea’s Ann-Katrin Berger, left, and Jess Carter pose with the league trophy after the Barclays Women’s Super League match at Select Car Leasing Stadium, Reading, May 27, 2023. (Nigel French/PA Images Getty Images)
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“If I had seriously thought that relationships between players are inappropriate, I wouldn’t have hired the well-known friend of my club captain for a world record price,” said another.
After Carter’s likes cheated, Hayes said the two had a one-on-one verbal exchange and she addressed the rest of her players.
ESPN’s Hayes said he was “disappointed” with his original comments, but added that he doesn’t “retract those things. “
However, “even if we have disagreements in life, we don’t express them publicly. “Hayes cited how the players combined for a hard-fought 3-1 win on Friday, showing that disagreements don’t have to lead to negativity on the field.
Chelsea manager Emma Hayes celebrates with Jess Carter in the Women’s Euro decider against Germany at Wembley Stadium on July 31, 2022 in London. (Getty Images)
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“We want to have conversations with others, however, it’s a vital thing that you have to do in the office and everybody understands and I think you saw on screen tonight that surely everybody’s involved in what we’re doing. “
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